The various helis and jets from Battlefield 2042 are often a bane for foot soldiers in the game. However, one player has found an extremely useful loadout to easily take out these nuisances. This only works through a trick.
What is this loadout? Technically, you only need 3 different gadgets, but you definitely need 2 loadouts that you must create before the game:
- one loadout needs the SOFLAM target marker
- the second loadout requires a recoil-less M5
- finally, you need Angel’s equipment crate
The remaining weapons are completely up to you, as these three gadgets are enough. You have the M5 from the start. You obtain the SOFLAM at level 56. You automatically have the equipment crate when you choose Angel as your specialist. It is his special gadget. In our special, we explain the specialists of Battlefield 2042 in detail.
How does the loadout work? Play with the SOFLAM and choose a target that you want to take down from the sky. The SOFLAM marks a vehicle just like the FXM-33 FA missile does. But first, set up your equipment crate.
The peculiarity is that every smart weapon receives a lock-on to the target after marking it. Now switch your loadout to the one with the M5 through your equipment crate.
The lock-on remains, and you can launch the missile. Unlike the FA missile, just one shot from the M5 is enough to take a heli down – and apparently, the distracting flares of the planes do not divert the missile, as a clip shows:
If you play in a team, you don’t even need to switch the loadout. You can simply inform your squad members that a target is marked. They can then hunt it down with their M5 launchers.
By the way, if you use helis for movement: with the wingsuit, you are even faster.
“That’s cheesy”
Is this supposed to work? At the moment, the community is divided on whether this is an exploit. The SOFLAM even maintains the mark even when it is no longer in the loadout. User BigBallsMalone says: “You shouldn’t be able to keep the lock-on after changing the loadout. That’s cheesy.”
However, it seems that the SOFLAM is simply time-limited and works across different players. Even in older Battlefield titles, such “hot swaps” were already possible. Nonetheless, fans are unsure if this is intended or one of the many bugs.
Against this stands the discussion of how strong vehicles really are. A part of the community complains that the continuous heli kills are annoying and that there is an effective counter through this method.
Others think one shot for a kill is too harsh.
Are there other options? In fact, one of the later sniper rifles is currently a popular anti-vehicle weapon. The NWT-50 takes out tanks just as well as the M5 but fires much faster (via GameStar.de).
However, you only unlock the sniper at level 60, which is even later than the SOFLAM. If you want to grind for that long, you then have two options to keep unwanted vehicles at bay.
By the way: DICE has revealed what the future holds for Battlefield 2042. Here are the plans:
Battlefield 2042 aims to finally fix its biggest problems, shows roadmap with over 200 improvements
